Published: 19/12/2019 Updated: 27/12/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 668

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NetHack 3.6.x prior to 3.6.4 is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability when reading very long lines from configuration files. This affects systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid, and shared systems that allow users to upload their own configuration files.

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Debian Bug report logs - #947005 nethack: CVE-2019-19905: buffer overflow when parsing config files Package: src:nethack; Maintainer for src:nethack is Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Reiner Herrmann <reiner@reiner-hde> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:00:02 UTC Severity: grave Tag ...

CWE-120 https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/commit/f001de79542b8c38b1f8e6d7eaefbbd28ab94b47 https://bugs.debian.org/947005 https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/commit/f4a840a48f4bcf11757b3d859e9d53cc9d5ef226 https://nethack.org/security/https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/security/advisories/GHSA-3cm7-rgh5-9pq5 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=947005 https://nvd.nist.gov

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